Fault slip rates show that late Quaternary contraction is distributed across the Kyrgyz central Tien Shan, and not concentrated at its margins. Nearly every intermontane basin contains Neogene and Quaternary syntectonic ...

Lithologic, climatic, and tectonic influences on debris-flow-dominated alluvial fan (debris-flow fan) morphology are elucidated through a combination of field mapping, map and aerial photo analysis, and a theoretical ...

The June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, was the second largest of the 20th century, emplacing 5--6 km 3 of pyroclastic-flow material and creating record high sediment yields on rivers draining the volcano. ...

In the Late Pleistocene, the Puget lobe of the Cordilleran ice sheet covered the Puget lowland in western Washington to an average depth of 1000 m in the Skykomish-Snoqualmie region and abutted against the western front ...

This dissertation uses field studies and analyses of digital topography in western Washington State to investigate (1) hydraulic controls on the spatial variation in bedsurface armoring, (2) grain-size controls on the ...

The retreat of large tidewater- and lake-calving glaciers, as well as nearby land-based glaciers, in southeastern Alaska during the middle to late Holocene was primarily triggered by increases in summer temperature. Shakes, ...

Simulations with a global box-diffusion $\sp$C model indicate that the millennium- and century-scale atmospheric $\Delta\sp$C variations during the Holocene are more likely explained by fluctuations in $\sp$C production ...

Exposed on Lummi Island are two groups of pre-Tertiary rocks
everywhere in fault contact with each other: a 1300 meter thick
section of turbidite sandstone and mudstone, and rocks largely of
igneous affinity. The latter ...

The volcanoes of Maui Nui (West Molokai, East Molokai, Lanai, West Maui, Haleakala and Kahoolawe) record Hawaiian magmatism at ∼1--2 Ma. These volcanoes nearly span the compositional range erupted from all the Hawaiian ...